Reply affidavit on behalf of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Gavhan Koliwada Matsyavyavsayik Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit Vs City & Industrial Development Corporation & Others dated 28/01/2025. City & Industrial Development Corporation submitted a proposal for CRZ clearance for the construction of coastal road from …
Indigenous people call off action following meeting with ministers over their ‘failure’ to aid to contaminated communities Peruvian ministers have met with representatives of hundreds of indigenous people from the country’s Amazon rainforest after they threatened to go on hunger strike in protest at what they say is government failure …
Supreme court rejects seven appeals from environmentalists and local authorities concerned at the impact on tourism Spain's top court has rejected seven appeals against oil exploration in the waters around the Canary Islands. In 2012, Madrid restored a decade-old permit to prospect for oil off the coast of Fuerteventura and …
PyagbaraTHE Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has blamed the failure of successive Nigerian government to enforce relevant oil industry laws to put the oil and gas companies in check for degradation of the Niger Delta environment. MOSOP President, Legborsi Pyagbara, said irrespective of the United Nations …
Invasive species cost the Northern Ireland economy £46.5m each year, according to official figures. A report on the economic cost of invasive and non-native species across the island of Ireland was prepared by Invasive Species Ireland, for the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and National Parks and Wildlife Service. The …
Royal Dutch Shell is ready to pay up to 30 million pounds ($51 million) in compensation for two oil spills in Nigeria in 2008 after a London court rejected a larger claim, sources involved in the case said on Friday. Around 15,000 residents of the Bodo community in the Niger …
Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau – the source of rivers such as the Brahmaputra – have shrunk by as much as 15 per cent, retreating by 8,000 square kilometres since 1980, according to a new Chinese government-backed study. The decades-long study conducted by the official Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) …
The trees in the forest ranges of Ukhiya and Inani in Cox’s Bazar are being erased and burnt nonchalantly to make into charcoal, a much easier way for woodcutters to earn a living. An influential syndicate of woodcutters in association with the local lawmaker’s relatives is engaged in plundering the …
The city is likely to get another `lung area' like Cubbon Park within five years if the state government accepts a proposal of a group of naturalists to declare Hesaraghatta lake and its nearby grasslands a conservation reserve. The proposal for the Greater Hesaraghatta Conservation Reserve covers around 5,000 acres …
The UN has expressed alarm at Australia’s proposal to dump 3m cubic metres of dredged material into the Great Barrier Reef world heritage site, saying the development could place the site on Unesco’s list of shame. The Australian and Queensland governments have granted approval for dumping as part of the …
The Chinese government's policies to combat water pollution have changed from simply focusing on the polluted water bodies to managing the ecological system of entire river basins, a much more comprehensive approach, officials said. "The coming water pollution prevention and control action plan to be released by the State Council …
The US plans to create the world's biggest marine protected area (MPA) in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The White House will extend an existing protected area, known as the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. Fishing and drilling would be banned from an area that could eventually cover …
0.000001 – one hundred thousandth – is a number so small that to most people it seems like nothing at all. Yet four and a half years since the Marine Act of 2009 came into force – legislation that was heralded as the saviour of UK seas – this is …
A new report on development and ecological sustainability in Uttarakhand by Ravi Chopra, environmentalist and head of the Supreme Court-appointed committee formed to study the role of the dams in the disaster last year, states that the devastation on June 15-17, 2013 was aggravated many times over by the heavy …
Federal court undoes 2005 legislation paving way for eco-tourism projects around three rivers Indigenous groups have won a four-year legal battle to undo development restrictions in Cape York imposed by Queensland's former Labor government. Federal court judge Andrew Greenwood has declared invalid April 2009 development restrictions on the Archer, Lockhart …
Management says that 'the project is very much on' and the first phase of the airport would be operational in 2016 KGS Aranmula International Airport Limited [KAIAL] will appeal in the Supreme Court against the verdict of the National Green Tribunal [NGT], said Gigi George, managing director. Addressing a press …
Given that the Goa state pollution control board (GSPCB) recently pulled up industrial units for dumping their waste outside the Cuncolim industrial estate, Nuvem villagers have questioned how the same industrial waste can be dumped along the Nuvem bypass road, which passes through low-lying fields. A fresh memorandum, signed by …
UNESCO is adding Japan’s Southern Alps mountain range and the Tadami beech forest to its global list of biosphere reserves, the government learned Thursday. Known as eco parks in Japan, the U.N. agency assigns biosphere reserve status to regions that exemplify a balance of human activity and nature. But at …
The Chilean government yesterday rejected plans to build the HidroAysén mega-dam project on two of Patagonia’s wildest rivers, prompting jubilation among citizens and campaigners and one observer to herald it as the Chilean environmental movement’s “greatest triumph.” “All those things that people think about when they think of Patagonia would …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) refused to overturn its earlier decision to ban ‘rat hole’ coal mining in Meghalaya, even as it reiterated that the ruling is based on the undisputed fact that the practices (traditional coal extraction) are illegal and have caused serious air, water and environmental degradation. The …
Researchers from the biodiversity department of Abasaheb Garware College have recorded the presence of 70 species of dragonflies in northern part of Western Ghats during a project funded by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the University of Pune (UoP). Four out of the 70 species were found in …
